How the China-Taiwan conflict could be devastating for the global economy | Business Beyond
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Published 2023-05-26
Cross-strait tensions have increased dramatically in recent years. The US, Taiwan's key strategic partner, says China wants to be ready to invade by 2027. Chinese President Xi Jinping has not ruled out the use of force.
Taiwan matters hugely to the global economy because of its complete dominance in the production of semiconductors. A Chinese blockade or invasion of Taiwan would shatter that all-important sector and as a result would wreak havoc on the economies of China, Taiwan and the wider world.
In this video, we look in detail at what is the most urgent threat to the global economy - and ask if anything can be done to avert catastrophe.
#china #taiwan #globaleconomy
00:00 Introduction
02:01 Taiwan-China, a brief history
05:25 Connected Economies
06:45 The Silicon Shield
10:08 Blockade, Invasion or Status Quo?
14:47 Shuttering The World’s Factory
17:17 The view from Beijing
19:24 Conclusion
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All Comments (21)
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Please continue to discuss this issue.
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Love Tiwan from china no war no hate❤
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For those who lack historical knowledge the essence is (hypothetical) 1. After American civil war the Confederates won and Union government went to Hawaii (hypothetical) 2. Britain (superpower at that time) recognizes the authority of Confederate America but through "strategic ambiguity" protects Hawaii in case of an attack.
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Gentle correction to one of the speakers (12:00). Although Taiwan is Small, with agriculture technology, Taiwan produces large amount of rice and farm produces. If you go to Taiwan, you’re in the market place, you will find majority of fruits, vegetables, and rice are Taiwanese grown. They heavily rely on fuel, but not necessarily ‘a good chunk of their food’.
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Universal human rights. Power to the people.
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Thank you for spending the time to create and share this content awareness
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narration job very well done, mr sullivan :)
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"each of the 15 billions or so transistors will have the size of a .... " can someone fill up the last word, please? i can't udnerstand/identify it at 09:06
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But sanctioning China wouldnt be as easy as sanctioning Russia because China is the worlds biggest manufacturer and exporter of goods. So it would be pretty much impossible for most countries ti sanction China without severly damaging themselves.
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Technically PRC is breakaway and not ROC cause PRC never controlled Taiwan but ROC was the sole government of china
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Taiwan is a great example of what the PRC could have been under a democratic government.
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Great video!
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Can you see china is following the footstep of imperial japan I think they have forgot how imperial Japan ended
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The only thing that can trigger the war is the leader of the Taiwan area announcing Taiwan is independent as a country, but no war otherwise .since the one-China policy is broken. For semiconductors, we are developing and confident in our semiconductor industry—no need to kill people from the same race.
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I appreciate this honest media.
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This is terrifying! It means we're finally going to have to learn to get along with each other!!
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3:11 actually its 13 countries recognize Taipei government ,which official name is republic of China and declared mainland China ,taiwan,south china sea ,republic of Mongol as its sovereign territories ,is the only legal represent of China ,DW is professional as usual BTW nobody recognize taiwan as a independence nation because :1. it's violated international law 2. PRC ,the second powerful nation in the world will declare war with you ,perhaps German should give it a try for prove its democracy value
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Nice video! Good journalism .
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Very good show, love the presenter!!!